Babites [4] [5] [6] [7] or Babite [1] (obsolete. Babīte [8] or Babīte [9] , Latvian Babītes ezers ) is a relict lake in the central part of Latvia , located in the Babīte lagoon on Riga a plain off the southern coast of the Gulf of Riga , on the border of the Salskaya and Babitsky volosts within the territory of the Babitsky Territory [6] [10] . Refers to the Lielupe basin. Lake Babites has an area of 25.557 km² [2] , thus being the seventh largest lake in Latvia [11] .
| Lake | |
| Babites | |
|---|---|
| Latvian. Babītes ezers | |
 Bird's-eye view of Lake Babitsky | |
| Morphometry | |
| Absolute height | 0.2 [1] m |
| Square | 25,557 [2] [3] km² |
| Deepest | 1.7 [3] m |
| Average depth | 0.9 [3] m |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| Edge | Babite Territory |
| Volosts | Salskaya volost , Babitsky volost |
Babīte Lake is one of the best places in Latvia for observing waterfowl migratory birds. For birds, this lake is an important place for nesting, plumage and recreation. Among the 184 species of birds that have been spotted on the lake, there are protected bird species, such as: meadow harrier , field harrier , coronet , others.
The lake was given the status of “Nature Reserve of Latvia” [12] . The rules for using the lake, which include the section “High Security Zone”, are established by a regulation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia [13] . In the "strict regime zone" it is forbidden to move, stay, do business and any other activity, except for the separately indicated items related to the protection of the territory itself, saving people and the period when the lake is completely covered with ice. In addition, several points related to economic activities and scientific research in this area require the written permission of the Latvian Environmental Protection Agency.
Type of lake - lagoon, formed 3000-4000 years ago. Four rivers flow into the lake.
Pisces
The lake is inhabited by tench , crucian carp , bream , pike , perch , river eel , rudd , carp , roach , pikeperch , and fisher [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Sheet of the map O-34-120 Jurmala . Scale: 1: 100,000. Status of the terrain for 1978. 1980 edition
- ↑ 1 2 Babites (Latvian) . - Information about the object in the public version of the database of Latvian toponyms on the website of the Latvian Geospatial Information Agency (LĢIA): lgia.gov.lv (Latvian) .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Babites (Latvian) . - Information about the lake in the database of the site “Ezeri.lv” (Latvian) (English) .
- ↑ Atlas of the World / comp. and preparation. to the ed. PKO "Cartography" in 2009; ch. ed. G.V. Pozdnyak . - M .: PKO "Cartography": Onyx, 2010. - S. 75. - ISBN 978-5-85120-295-7 (Cartography). - ISBN 978-5-488-02609-4 (Onyx).
- ↑ 3.1.5. The emphasis in the Latvian language falls on the first syllable (both in simple and in complex words) // Instruction on the Russian transfer of geographical names of the Latvian SSR / Compiled by G. N. Savvina . Editor: V.E. Staltman . - Moscow: TsNIIGAiK , 1989. - P. 14. - 300 copies.
- ↑ 1 2 Babites // Riga: Encyclopedia = Enciklopēdija “Riga” / ch. ed. P.P. Eran. - Riga: Main Edition of Encyclopedias , 1989 .-- S. 177, 434. - 880 p. - 60,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89960-002-0 .
- ↑ Babites // Dictionary of geographical names of the USSR / GUGK , TsNIIGAiK . - 2nd ed., Revised. and add. - M .: Nedra , 1983.- S. 21.
- ↑ Sheet 3 from series VIII of the Military Topographic Map of the Russian Empire of 1846–1863, created under the leadership of F. F. Schubert and P. A. Tuchkov . Scale: 3 versts per inch (1: 126,000) . ( View with reference )
- ↑ Materials for Geography and Statistics of Russia, Volume 12, Part 2, 1863
- ↑ Data was obtained using the cartographic service on the website balticmaps.eu (Latvian) (Russian) (English) .
- ↑ Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Inland waters of Latvia. (Latvian) . Archived February 22, 2015.
- ↑ Nature reserve “Babītes ezers” (Lake Babite) (Inaccessible link - history ) .
- ↑ Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia “Individual Rules for the Protection and Use of the Nature Reserve“ Babīte Lake “”. (Latvian.)